Tribes: Vengeance Preview

At a recent VU Games pre-E3 event, we got a chance to spend some good quality time with Tribes: Vengeance. We played a couple of multiplayer maps: Spridian, a tight arena level, and Forts, which features -- surprise -- two forts on opposite sides of a large lake. We jetted through the water and noticed that you move much faster through water in Vengeance than in Tribes 2. Producer Chris Mahnken explained that, since Tribes is so much about movement in the environment, they didn't want to slow down that momentum too much. While we had played the maps before at GDC, the big new surprise we got to check out where the two new weapons in the game: the buckler and the grappling hook.